Chris Trousdale

Continuation of Chris Trousale Interview…

What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
My greatest strength is my endurance. I can last for a long long time. My weaknesses….wow, I don’t know what my weakness is. Probably just getting distracted, not frustrated but sometimes I just need the down time, say relaxing at home for two days if I do have two days to do nothing. I’ll take that time and literally be the biggest slob. I won’t pick up my room. I’ll just throw my clothes on the floor, I won’t make my bed. I love it. It’s great. It’s fun to just be a mess.

What’s the nicest thing someone has done for you? 
I think there’s been, so many things that people have done for me that have been really sweet so I can’t really name one but probably just encouragement. Anyone who has given me any type of encouragement. That’s the nicest thing anyone can do for another person.

Who’s the greatest influence in your life and why?
I think Louie is my greatest influence ( laughs ) just because, I’ve watched him day to day since I was 13 in Dream Street. I saw how he handled things, even when he got knocked down by people he just always always comes back and never lets anybody discourage him. In any aspect of strength, Louie has it. He has so much strength, mentally, physically. It’s really great.

What do you see yourself doing in 5 years?
I see myself so so so famous * laughs * but not just famous but so content with career choice, content with life and my family. I really want to have a really well connected family. I’m connected with them now, but I want it even more so. I really want to get a good family reunion, together in 5 years. I want to have stability in my life, to be comfortable. Nowadays, I don’t know what my schedule is going to be like from day to day. The sky’s the limit. It’s a good feeling but I also want some type of stability in 5 years. I want to have two or three albums out in five years.

What do you like to do when you’re not rehearsing?

I like to go take a good hip-hop class. I just want to sweat until I feel like I’m going to pass out. So just let it all out, and learn a whole routine of some new songs my teacher teaches. And it’s really good because I take classes with the best dancers in the videos. One of the girls in it (she’s been in a music video), is so good. I take classes with her everyday. There are a lot of good dancers in my class so it keeps me motivated. The class is so hard, really hard, it’s scary!

We know you always have the best clothes and style! Where do you get your fabulous fashion sense from?
Claudia. She taught me, when I was in Dream Street, she would talk about how people dressed. She showed me what was cool and what wasn’t. She taught me her rules of dressing well. On tour, she’d bring these magazines with us with hit or miss in fashion, who hit it or who missed it. It was so much fun, it was like a game with us. For guys it can be really annoying to go shopping and it can be stressful too! They don’t make good clothes for guys so there’s no variety. Claudia made it fun and more interesting. She got me into it.

We’ve heard so many different answers. What is your heritage/nationality?
Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It’s an ethnic Irish. It’s not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it’s basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It’s dark. So yeah, Greek and Black Irish.

Half and half?
Yeah I think…my dad is full Greek and my mom’s Black Irish.

Do you speak any other languages?
Not completely and utterly fluently but I speak a lot of Spanish. I took it in school. A lot of my friends were Spanish growing up. I know Claudia teaches me so much Portuguese. I actually pick up a lot of that. I’m really good with languages.

We know that since you’re in the entertainment business you’ve had to be home schooled or tutored. What was that like for you?
My tutors were always the best. There was a woman named Alli and a lady named Kate. They were both awesome. One of my other tutors, Nancy was like a mom to me. She helped me get a 96% on my U.S. history regents. And then an 89% on my English regents, no it was the opposite! Wait, I forget. But yeah, everyone was shocked that I got those high scores with working so much. It was really awesome.

Do you have any hidden talents?
Yeah I have a lot of hidden talents but I can’t say a lot of them. I’m kidding * laughs * I’m just jokin, I’m just jokin. I can…I don’t know, what is my hidden talent. I can fly! No I’m kidding. Ok hold on, let me think. I really wanted to be in politics a lot. Unlike most people when they don’t like somebody, they’re so evil and nasty, I’m not like that. I’m very political with it. I approach it in a different way. If it doesn’t work, I move on to the next stage. That’s my way of handling people. So growing up in school, it was really difficult because most people would be quick to say I hate you. I wasn’t like that, I was the opposite. It drove my enemy crazy because they were like (because you wouldn’t give it back) right! So people are always scared, they wouldn’t think I’d be like that. People are always scared to cross me, fans sometimes say I don’t want to bug or bother him. But no one ever bothers me, ever. The only one that could ever possibly get me annoyed, get me frustrated would be Louie because Louie has to do that. People in general, they can’t really get to me.

What are the top 3 qualities you look for in a friend?
The top three qualities I look for in a friend are loyalty, constant love, appreciation and devotion, and then the third is probably common interests and someone you have that ying and yang with. You can feed off of each other’s energy, connecting the best.

How old were you when you moved to NYC?
I was 11 because I moved into NY to do Les Mis on Broadway.

If you had a visitor coming in from out of town, where would you take them?
I would take them to all the touristy places first and then to the heart of Manhattan showing them what makes Manhattan different from every other place, take them to those places.

When you were filming TBF, what did you use as far as techniques for memorizing lines? Was it easy for you?
Lines were kind of difficult to memorize but what always helps is to have tricks that trigger your memory like when you’re studying for a test.

What would you say was the funniest moment on the set of the Biggest Fan?
Probably when Kaila had to trip and fall in the kitchen scene because it was actually really hard for her to trip, you have to make it look real it’s really hard. She had a little padding thing (to trip over). Most of the time when we started the scene it looked like she was trying to fall. They actually put something in her way so when she’d walk she’d just naturally trip, and it was funny because one time she actually tripped and it was a real trip. You knew it was and I literally laughed. I think that’s the take that they used. I had food in my mouth and the first time she tripped I spit it all over her and it landed on her on the ground. She tripped and it was funny and they were like keep going but then she goes “you just spit food all over me” so they had to yell cut!! She got up and there was food, there was scrambled eggs in her hair, it was funny.

We really love TBF and think you’re just a spectacular actor! Anymore movies for you in the future?
Yeah I plan on doing a lot more, I think I’m going to do a film this fall so we’ll keep you updated on that. (asks Louie about the film explaining it’s a horror film) It’s really creepy, so I hope I’m in that, we’ll see about that. Such a different type of film huh? I think I would play a killer too. Wouldn’t that be creepy? It’s like the least expected right? It’d be really creepy. (versatile actor) yeah exactly! That’s why I want to do it.

In a recent radio interview, you said you’ll be doing a Christmas Tour. That sounds so exciting! Please tell me more about that.
Yes I am! On BLI I announced the Christmas tour, I’m going to be touring all of the country. In each state I’m going to ask fans during the break to bring gifts. These will be for children in hospitals who are too sick to go home for Christmas. If they bring the gift, I’ll give them an extra kiss on the cheek or something. As opposed to me just giving gifts, it’ll be from the kids, and they’re doing a good deed. They can even write a get well soon message to the person who’s receiving the gift. That kid will feel great just knowing the gift is from another kid. If they want, they can give an email address so they can talk to the child who receives their gift. We haven’t really figured everything out, but there are so many possibilities and benefits of it.

How about your CD, how is that working out?
It’s done well basically just trying to get it the biggest release. We’re not delaying it; we’re just taking our time with it. We want to make sure we have every TV channel. We want everyone to you know plug it, I don’t know how to put it but, so Valentine’s Day I hope it will be out. I’m pretty sure though because it’s been enough time so that works out well. It’ll be awesome.

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Interview with Chris Trousdale, solo artist pumping up the energy everywhere he goes when performing!

FAVORITES

Musical:Les Miserables, that’s the show I was in
Vacation spot: The most convenient and most relaxing would be Miami, Fl, it’s in the states and easy to get to.
Car: oh wow Lamborghini Diablo, that’s really my favorite, when I see it I’m just like wow! For a more simple car, I like the Nissan class, metal gray color.
Cologne: L’eau Par Kenzo, nobody really knows about it, it’s at Sephora, its a light blue cologne and smells really really really nice!
Designer: I like Diesel just to wear (for casual wear)
Summer activities: Water sports, that’s my favorite, jet skiing and water skiing, kneeboarding
Winter activities: I like to snowmobile up in Michigan when we go to the mountains there.
Cereal: Lucky Charms oh wait Cinnamon Toast Crunch! Both! It says favoriteS
Game to play: Halo and X-Box
Restaurant:For chain restaurants I like Red Lobster, I love Red Lobster. My favorite non-chain restaurant is Samba Sushi, it’s more of a high end place, a Brazillian and Japanese mix.
Season: Summer and then fall. I like fall a lot too. It’s really nice looking.

Sport:Baseball
City: My favorite city is NYC! (of course!)
TV Show: Is Friends, well was Friends. I loved those guys, they were awesome!
Quote: Literally Louie and I talk in quotes or sayings. “I’m not at all surprised” is definitely one of them. If someone does something stupid to us, we just say “I’m not at all surprised” because I’m never surprised, it is what it is.
Song: My favorite song, wow I don’t know my favorite song. I don’t think I have a favorite song.
Movie: Surprisingly one of my favorite movies is “Love Actually” because I watched it with my mom. She rented it from Blockbuster and she said you have to watch this movie with me. We both related to it because it just showed that it’s hard to find love. Yet sometimes you can find it in the craziest places and you never know you just never know. So I really liked that.
Radio station: My favorite radio station….*laughs* Z100 and BLI
Holiday: Christmas
Shampoo: I like Bed Head. They have shampoo and conditioner because I have so much stuff in my hair, the only shampoo that takes it out is Bed Head.
Subject: My favorite subject is…well was…probably science. I loved Science. I really liked Earth Science because I got to learn about the earth and then I took biology. I thought that was interesting to learn how our body works.
 

This or That

Pepsi/Coke– Coke
Burgers/Hotdogs – Burgers
Mexican/Italian food-Italian
Comedies/Mysteries- oh wow that one’s hard. I always laugh with my friends a lot so I don’t need comedies to get me going. I like curious things like mysteries because I get comedy in life all the time. My whole life’s a comedy.
Gold/Silver jewelry- I like silver. I don’t know why
Vanilla/Chocolate- Vanilla, simple…I like Chocolate though too.
Dogs/Cats- Dogs
Ice-skating/ Rollerblading- Rollerblading
Movie at home/In theater- in the theater
Morning person/ Night owl- Night owl big time…I hate when the night ends. If you’re on vacation sometimes in the morning you just want to go lay out in the sun and just chill. Then the mornings are nice because you just fall asleep wherever you want (like on the beach). I don’t like having to do something right away in the morning, like school, ugh.

Last….

Dream you hadI’m trying to think last night, what did I dream about…Lets see… I don’t remember! I’m really bad with remembering my dreams. If I do remember I remember it right after I wake up and then it just goes away.

Movie you saw- Justified! (line from the movie, lol) Oh wait no, “Skeleton Key.” It was this scary movie about voodoo and New Orleans with Kate Hudson. You have to see that, it was good.
CD you played- Black Eyed Peas, the new one.

Q&A

We saw you on July 16th in NYC- Central Park, your show was just spectacular! We loved it! You’re such a natural on the stage. Have you always liked performing?
Thank you! I’ve always always liked to be the center of attention. My mom used to bug me and say, “Chris stop being so obnoxious.” I would say,”mom I love it.” I used to always love to perform. I loved to move andjust go crazy. I did everything. I used to tap, anything that would make noise and make people snap their heads, I used to love to try.

Do you still tap?
No I haven’t done it in probably 4 years but I could probably go back to it easily.

On a show day what is your routine like?
I wake up in enough time so that my voice gets warmed up. It helps to talk a lot, my voice is best at night. I make sure I have enough time. You can’t warm up when you first wake up because it will hurt your voice unless you start off really really slow. So I take it really easy whenI get up. I take a nice shower, do my hair, pick out my clothes, and see what I’m supposed to do. It’s like getting ready for a school day, only you’re going to be in front of people, a lot of people so….it’s more fun probably. I rehearse the day before and then when we get to the show we’ll work at it again.

How long does it take you to learn one of those dance routines?
Well now because I’ve been with Claudia so long, it doesn’t take that long at all. Probably about 2 days or 3 days to learn the whole thing. We learned “Play It Like That” in 2 days. I think that one was the last one. I think the one before that was Turn it Up. They’re all cool, thanks to Claudia.

We heard that you enjoy writing music. What do you use for your inspiration for these songs?
Yeah I love it! Whenever I write something it’s never the whole song. I always get caught up in a chorus. I can write this whole chorus on my computer at home and then I get really tired of it. Then I’ll move on to something else. So I’ve yet to write an entire song through and through with instruments and vocals. I like writing but it’s probably best if I sit down with a professional song writer.

There are 2 songs on my album that I worked out a lot of the kinks in, “Love’s Gonna Getcha” and ” The Dream Is Gone” and I said, “put more of this in, put more of that in.” I wrote a lot of the music in the sense choosing which sounds I liked, the rhythms, and which instruments fit best. I helped write the sound of 2 or 3 of my songs but Berny and Kevin were actually the writers of the songs and they totally let me letloose on them. They’re the ones who I really worked with in the writing. The other songs were all other writers and it was cool. But I always had something to say if I didn’t like it. It’s good. They would let me say whatever I want.

What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?
I think it was probably from Louie, my manager, because after a really long show day, for one of my bigger shows I signed autographs for 3 ½ hours and everyone was waiting for me. Then on the ride home Louie would say, “wow you really stuck it out. You really spent time with them.” It’s not like I even need a compliment for that but for him to encourage me and make me feel like I did something good really helps me feel good. It’s different to feel something and then have someone actually notice it and say something about it. It makes me feel great about what I do.